Posted by A single sidestep to VMWare on this blog. Don’t write often over VMWare because it works as expected the most of the time. Which it makes a boring, stable and expensive platform to me. But yeah I faced a issue last weekend and wanted to write something about it.
The issue:
Unable to PowerOff VM
Initiated a automatic VMWare tools upgrade.
Waited for about 30 Minutes, till the VM Freezed and showed a black screen.
Events in VCenter:
When trying to update VMTools: Operation timed out.
When trying to PowerOff the VM: Another task is already in progress.
After waiting some more minutes (I don’t have much patience).. I decieded to shoot the VMProces down on the ESX Host.
Solution: Force PowerOff VM on ESX Host.
- Open a SSH Connection to ESX (with for example Putty).
- Use this command to get the HostVMId:
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esxcli vm process list |
- Write down or copy the world id of the problematic VM.
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esxcli vm process kill –type=soft –world-id=WORLDNUMBERID #No Result? esxcli vm process kill –type=hard –world-id=WORLDNUMBERID #Still no result? esxcli vm process kill –type=force –world-id=WORLDNUMBERID |
- If all goes well your vm is PoweredOff now.